As you know, I have a thing about conditional code. Most conditionals are duplicates, and the only “genuine” conditionals are at the system boundaries, where they test external state and input information. But I discovered recently that, even at the edges, not every conditional is necessary… Here’s (a drastically simplified version of) some code I… [Read more…]
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Why is it sometimes easier to comment out a test than to get it to pass?
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There are two kinds of conditional statements in a system; and one kind is redundant
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You are tempted to create a method with a boolean argument. Don't.
I'm Kevin Rutherford, from Macclesfield in the UK. I'm an independent agile software coach and mentor, specialising in test-driven development, agile, lean and the theory of constraints.
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